The excuse for confrontation.
The Black Lives Matter riots started in the USA and then rapidly spread across North America and Europe. What sparked them was the death in custody of a Black man by the name of George Floyd. There has been much talk about the character of Floyd. According to some researchers, he was a serial criminal and a drug addict, whose life of crime included the burglary of a house during which Floyd held a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman, putting her life and the life of her unborn child in serious danger. But the character of a suspect doesn't make his death in custody alright, even if it does make his elevation to the status of martyr appear somewhat excessive. The key factor which was jumped upon as an excuse to engage in divisive and destructive protests, was his skin colour. The American police are infamous for killing people. Rather than this being a race issue, it is an issue of policing in a far away country, and one which the people of the USA need to address, not people across the 'west'.
Not relevant outside the USA.
The British Isles are not a part of the USA! This really shouldn't need to be said, but unfortunately it does. The mass media and entertainment industry refer to the President of the USA not as such, but simply as 'the President'. In the UK we dial 999 for emergency services, yet due to media-addling and education-poisoning, it is possible to dial 911 for the same services. There are people in the UK who have demonstrated against Donald Trump, President of a foreign country, carrying banners proclaiming 'not my president'! The Black Lives Matter protests are not relevant to the UK and Ireland. Whilst the USA has a history of segregation and racism, the British Isles have not. Our lands are famous for being welcoming and tolerant. The BLM protests here have created division where it didn't previously exist.
Attacking statues is pointless and pathetic.
The only people who benefit from the divisive id politics which is being pushed by the national capitalist race supremacists, banker-capitalist zionists and the global capitalist neo-liberals, are those who serve the present economic system, and who have a vested interest in keeping people distractd from the reality that the only issue which matters is class.
The Ruling Class across Africa (Arab and Black Africa) owned Slaves long before European imperialists ventured into that sick trade. The European Ruling Class owned Slaves in Europe, before finding it more lucrative to buy people abroad to use as cheap labour. Those who identify along racial lines and ignore the despicable deeds of the Ruling Class against the Working Class, who hero-worship the monarchies of their respective ancestral nations, allow the contemporary tyrants to continue unopposed.
References
Number of slaves in Roman Empire. D’Arms, John H. & Kopf, E. Christian, Editors (1980) Seaborne Commerce of Ancient Rome: Studies in Archaeology and History). Rome: American Academy in Rome
Ethnic origin of slaves in Rome. Prowse Tracy L., Henry P. Schwarcz, Peter Garnsey, Martin Knyf, Roberto Macchiarelli, Luca Bondioli (2007) Isotopic evidence for age‐related immigration to imperial Rome. Washington: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Extent of slavery in 19th century Africa. Coupland, Reginald (1938) East Africa and Its Invaders from the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856. Oxford: The Clarendon Press
First recorded reference to slaves. Cotterell, Arthur, Editor (1980) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Civilisations. New York: Mayflower Books
Youtube videos by Simon Webb of History Debunked:
https://www.simon-webb.com/#
https://www.facebook.com/SimonWebbYT/
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